title: Bell ringers' bruises and broken bones: capers and crises in campanology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the incidence, aeriology, and outcome of injuries due to bell ringing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective review of the last six years' issues of Ringing World, advertisement in Ringing World, and a postal questionnaire sent to 20 active ringing towers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Regular bell ringers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy nine injuries were identified both from review and by advertisement in Ringing World. The incidence of injury among 221 ringers identified by postal questionnaire was 1.8% a year.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although sonerous, bell ringing can be dangerous and occasionally even fatal. Doctors should be aware of the dangers to which campanologists expose themselves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Leicester Royal Infirmary.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Lamont
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: London
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000293:injuries; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*